Shifting and switching from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from stampedes of miniature Pomeranian Buffalos to All-You-Zombies heterophonies, Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been performing beautifully messy, joyously difficult, ambiguous and discordant improvised musics for over twenty years. Park is the mastermind behind ensembles including Eris 136199 with Catherine Sikora and Nick Didkovsky; Juno 3 with Lara Jones and Pat Thomas; and Gonggong 225088 with Yorgos Dimitriadis and Camila Nebbia; and performs as part of a duo with Richard Barrett.
Max Arsava is a pianist and electronic musician living in Berlin who works in jazz and free jazz, as well as electroacoustic music. His music has been released on labels such as Aut Records, Jazzwerkstatt, creative sources recordings, KLAENG Records, among others. He has performed concerts in Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, France, England, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Turkey, and the United States. He curates the explorations series at exploratorium berlin, is co-host of richten25 and the collective neu berlin institute of improvised music and plays with the Berlin based large ensemble Circuit Training.
James Paul Nadien is a percussionist, composer, improviser, and the founder of JPN Records. He is currently based in New York City, where he can be found playing a wide variety of music on any given evening. His polymathic abilities have made him one of New York’s most in-demand musicians. His free-jazz/brutal prog trio, Toadal Package, as well as his chamber quartet, TYPO!, feature his complex original compositions, combining all of his influences into one highly focused stream. He has performed and recorded with hundreds of bands and iconoclastic artists, including but not limited to, The Flying Luttenbachers, Joe Morris, Ravi Coltrane, Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, William Parker, Tony Malaby, Chris Pitsiokos, Yuhan Su, Matt Mitchell, Vinny Golia, Darius Jones, Steve Swell, Brandon Seabrook, and many more.
